“We have to make decisions that are deliberative about our health care at every moment. What I have said is that if I cannot say another prayer, if I cannot give or get another hug, and if I cannot have another martini then let me go.”—Monsignor Charles Fahey, 76, chairman of the board of the National Council on Aging, a nonprofit service and advocacy group. He was respondingto the Associated Press about Sarah Palin’s “death panel” accusations and was Religion News Service’s Quote of the Day.

David Gibson is director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University and an occasional contributor to Commonweal.

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